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From: nfs@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: The recent GNU e?grep post
Summary: Does this work for you??
Keywords: GNU, grep, egrep
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Date: 16 Mar 89 02:12:56 GMT
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I pulled the recent posting of GNU e?grep (apparently ported by
Charles Martlett) off comp.binaries.ibm.pc today.  It doesn't 
appear to work on my machine.

At first glance, it seemed pretty fast.  But it failed the
khadafy test in spectacular fashion - it simply locked my machine
up solid (well, CTRL-ALT-DEL still works).  A little further
playing around revealed that a small subset of the full khadafy
regexp (M[ou]'?) would start the daydreaming.

Is anyone having better luck?

Norbert